skullman80 wrote:Playing the Islanders now has nothing to do with that 93 debacle. It shouldn't even be a thought 20 years later.

Yes it sucked, and as a 10 year old I cried that night, but this matchup is about now and now then.

It’s not just David Volek’s 1993 goal but the colossal upset the Isles pulled off against a vastly superior Pens team. In 1982, the Isles achieved a colossal upset from the point at which they trailed the Pens 3-1 with 5 minutes left in Game 5 of a 5-game series. In 1975, the Isles performed their first colossal upset of the Pens when they came back from being down 3-0 in games.

Three series, three colossal upsets achieved by the Isles over the Pens. They were easily the three most crushing playoff defeats in Pens’ playoff history. Is this a cruel jinx that will happen again? I fear it will. I was rooting hard for the Bruins to beat Ottawa tonight so the Pens could avoid the Islanders.

Who else is apprehensive over facing the Islanders because of their playoff history?

skullman80 wrote:Playing the Islanders now has nothing to do with that 93 debacle. It shouldn't even be a thought 20 years later.

Yes it sucked, and as a 10 year old I cried that night, but this matchup is about now and now then.

It’s not just David Volek’s 1993 goal but the colossal upset the Isles pulled off against a vastly superior Pens team. In 1982, the Isles achieved a colossal upset from the point at which they trailed the Pens 3-1 with 5 minutes left in Game 5 of a 5-game series. In 1975, the Isles performed their first colossal upset of the Pens when they came back from being down 3-0 in games.

Three series, three colossal upsets achieved by the Isles over the Pens. They were easily the three most crushing playoff defeats in Pens’ playoff history. Is this a cruel jinx that will happen again? I fear it will. I was rooting hard for the Bruins to beat Ottawa tonight so the Pens could avoid the Islanders.

Who else is apprehensive over facing the Islanders because of their playoff history?

skullman80 wrote:Playing the Islanders now has nothing to do with that 93 debacle. It shouldn't even be a thought 20 years later.

Yes it sucked, and as a 10 year old I cried that night, but this matchup is about now and now then.

It’s not just David Volek’s 1993 goal but the colossal upset the Isles pulled off against a vastly superior Pens team. In 1982, the Isles achieved a colossal upset from the point at which they trailed the Pens 3-1 with 5 minutes left in Game 5 of a 5-game series. In 1975, the Isles performed their first colossal upset of the Pens when they came back from being down 3-0 in games.

Three series, three colossal upsets achieved by the Isles over the Pens. They were easily the three most crushing playoff defeats in Pens’ playoff history. Is this a cruel jinx that will happen again? I fear it will. I was rooting hard for the Bruins to beat Ottawa tonight so the Pens could avoid the Islanders.

Who else is apprehensive over facing the Islanders because of their playoff history?

I was a hardcore fan through all three of those series. I now live in the middle of LI.

skullman80 wrote:Playing the Islanders now has nothing to do with that 93 debacle. It shouldn't even be a thought 20 years later.

Yes it sucked, and as a 10 year old I cried that night, but this matchup is about now and now then.

It’s not just David Volek’s 1993 goal but the colossal upset the Isles pulled off against a vastly superior Pens team. In 1982, the Isles achieved a colossal upset from the point at which they trailed the Pens 3-1 with 5 minutes left in Game 5 of a 5-game series. In 1975, the Isles performed their first colossal upset of the Pens when they came back from being down 3-0 in games.

Three series, three colossal upsets achieved by the Isles over the Pens. They were easily the three most crushing playoff defeats in Pens’ playoff history. Is this a cruel jinx that will happen again? I fear it will. I was rooting hard for the Bruins to beat Ottawa tonight so the Pens could avoid the Islanders.

Who else is apprehensive over facing the Islanders because of their playoff history?

ok well its 20 years later and there are none of the same players on the Isles. They are NOT those teams at all. Not saying its not possible but that history means nothing and its going to get real annoying hearing about it all the time

I won't feel calm about this unless we get an early lead in the series and never look back. I still have nightmares about last year's playoffs, and the 93 playoffs and the way we came out and let the Isles take a crap on us early in the season isn't helping my confidence. Please just come out and dominate on Wednesday.

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PhantomJB93 wrote:I won't feel calm about this unless we get an early lead in the series and never look back. I still have nightmares about last year's playoffs, and the 93 playoffs and the way we came out and let the Isles take a crap on us early in the season isn't helping my confidence. Please just come out and dominate on Wednesday.

skullman80 wrote:Playing the Islanders now has nothing to do with that 93 debacle. It shouldn't even be a thought 20 years later.

Yes it sucked, and as a 10 year old I cried that night, but this matchup is about now and now then.

It’s not just David Volek’s 1993 goal but the colossal upset the Isles pulled off against a vastly superior Pens team. In 1982, the Isles achieved a colossal upset from the point at which they trailed the Pens 3-1 with 5 minutes left in Game 5 of a 5-game series. In 1975, the Isles performed their first colossal upset of the Pens when they came back from being down 3-0 in games.

Three series, three colossal upsets achieved by the Isles over the Pens. They were easily the three most crushing playoff defeats in Pens’ playoff history. Is this a cruel jinx that will happen again? I fear it will. I was rooting hard for the Bruins to beat Ottawa tonight so the Pens could avoid the Islanders.

Who else is apprehensive over facing the Islanders because of their playoff history?

I was a hardcore fan through all three of those series. I now live in the middle of LI.

Last year we came out on fire the first 2 games in the first periods and jumped out in front and collapsed. Lets hope we can take that intensity and have it for all 3 periods and play solid defense. I am still very nervous even though i am confident we have learned from last season but still until we win game 1 i will want to vomit

Honestly the Pens should sweep. The Isles aren't good. They are one of two playoff teams that doesn't have a positive goal differential. They have the worst goals against of any playoff team, going against the highest scoring team in hockey. Worst five on five differential of any playoff team. Penalty kill isn't good going against the second best unit in the league. Below average faceoff team. Also not a lot of playoff experience on that team. This is not a good match-up for them as the Pens' strengths play right into their weaknesses.

Upsets happen but this shouldn't be close. What happened 20 years ago is irrelevant. I've been heavily critical of this team but I expect them to be much more focused this year.